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Injuries and Fatalities on U.S. Farms

by Jack L. Runyan

Agriculture Information Bulletin No. (AIB-739) 1 pp, January 1998

Farm operators and their families suffered 72 percent of the 673 work-related farm fatalities in 1992 and a third of the 64,813 nonfatal farming injuries. Hired farmworkers endured 44,383 nonfatal and less than a third of fatal work-related injuries.